The end of the cold war

Ronald Reagan years - 1981 - 1989:

• Star Wars (SDI): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyJjngsudW4
• "Peace Shield" commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjX2lThqt1M
• Commodore 64 Computer commercial 1982: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kge8zlJfwQQ
• Sony BetaMax Video Tape Recorder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqPnEIY8GLQ
• Vision of the internet, 1969: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc

Cold War, useful links:
http://www.timelines.info/ Cold War
spartacus.schoolnet, ColdWarChron

Topics in Term 4:

• Vietnam War
• Australia’s / US involvement in the Vietnam war
• Détente
• Russia in the 1970s and 1980s (Afghanistan)
• Reagan and Gorbatchev
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Collapse of the USSR
• Prep for exam

"Throughout the 1980s, the Soviet Union fought an increasingly frustrating war in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Soviet economy faced the continuously escalating costs of the arms race. Dissent at home grew while the stagnant economy faltered under the combined burden. Attempted reforms by Gorbachev left the Soviet Union unwilling to rebuff challenges to its control in Eastern Europe. During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end." (Source)


end of the Cold War
End of Cold War: Read page 311 - 326 in your book.
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/coldwar/end_matchup.html
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/coldwar/detente_matchup.html


Incredible footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYXbJ_bcLc

Three songs on the Cold War

Frankie Goes to Hollywood: When two tribes go to war

1982

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
Cowboy number one
A born again poor man's son
On the air America
I modelled shirts by Van Heusen
Workin' for the black gas, yeah
You know
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
Workin' for the black gas
Switch off your shield
Switch off and feel
I'm workin' on lovin' yeah
Giving you back the good times
Ship it out, out
I'm workin' for the black gas
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
We got two tribes
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, yeah
Sock it to me biscuits now
Are we livin' in a land
Where sex and horror are the new Gods?
Yeah
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4J4M6BXDLs

Russians, Sting

Album: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in 1985

In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too
How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy
There is no monopoly in common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too
There is no historical precedent
To put the words in the mouth of the President
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie that we don't believe anymore
Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us, me, and you
Is if the Russians love their children too

Billy Joel, we didn't start the fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP0APvTSMMw
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
CHORUS
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...